Are there any lies the other way around that Germans have been told about the US that you’ve found to be false?? BTW, If you want to check out that amazing wine tour and wine pairing class, you can sign up here: bit.ly/3CefzOf
That the USA are „the greatest country on earth“ and that anyone can get rich if only they try (no money or connections needed). Both have been proven wrong to me by my family in the USA.
I went to NY to see cowboys on horses chasing Indians, didn't see a single one of both. But it still is 'the Center of the World' they said, but it smelled after something else, piles of garbage and filthy streets. There are a lot of false images about the US in Europe as well, but with a little bit of reading and a closer view, you can quickly see through the decor. What struck me was the poverty in large cities, homelessness, and addiction. And a lot of 'fake' were tourists come, and exaggeration of 'happiness' as well. The US is an interesting country, with a lot of beautiful landscapes and many nice people, but just as anywhere else in the world it isn't paradise.
The biggest lie Americans are told about Germans is that Germany is all about lederhosen, half-timbered houses, sauerkraut, pretzels, white sausage and beer. Many Americans are also taught that you can drive as fast as you want on every German Autobahn.
This is true...but we had to change it up and not make another video about this stereotype of "all of Germany is just like Bavaria" 😂 To add onto the autobahn lie, most Americans also think the Autobahn is just a single famous road 😅
That's funny. There are about 122 Autobahnen in Germany and on most of them there are so many traffic jams every day that you often stand more than you drive.
c@@VOLTAIRE_DORTMUND You are just using them at the wrong hour of the day - go for nights, between 2 and 4 am .. they are much emptier then. OK, it has been a while since I drove on a Autobahn. It has been a while since I drove period
@@franhunne8929 You're aware that you should only drive at a speed where you can stop within the range of your headlights at night? Agreed, German deer are smaller than moose or American elks, but I wouldn't want to hit one anyway, and they roam at night. There are no fences, and it's not uncommon to see an animal on the autobahn now and then.
I'm Czech, not German, but in beer consumption that doesn't matter(and in terms of culture, we are much closer to Germans and Austrians cause we shared 1000years of history with them. We are basically Germans with Slavic language). I'm an abstinent but I really like the taste of beer, so I drink only non-alcoholic beer. Also the Czech culture revolves about beer and a lot of Czechs are abstinents now, so you can buy non alcoholic beer even at local pub in your village with 200 inhabitants.
I do the same in Germany. Beer just tastes great, but I don't like alcohol and I feel like it has become more normal to drink non-alcoholic beer at least among younger people.
I'm curious - do many Czechs actually describe themselves as a kind of German with just a different language ? There sure is a lot of shared history and similarities like the beer-brewing, engineering, mining.....
@@theoderich1168 Depends on the generation. Before WWII about third of the Czechoslovakian population was Sudeten German.After the war all Germans were violently deported to Germany (lot of Czechs actually defend this awful action) after that the Communists started massive anti-german Slavic brothers propaganda that lasted 40 years. The relationships between countries are better now, but there are still dumb people (mainly Facebook comments) that still blame Germans for the war and shit. I stand with my claim, that we are culturally Austrian and German (cuisine is also similar, we eat Schnitzel and potato salad and a lot of meat with dumplings) but if you asked Czechs on the street, the majority would disagree with me. Actually there are some people in Czechia that believe in Pan-Slavism and support Serbia and shit
@@matkys Thank you very much for replying, that is very interesting to know; geographically Czechia sure is a part of the central European area, like the German speaking neighbours.... Have a good weekend and greetings from the Teutoburg Forest
Well, there is a difference between owning a gun in Europe/Germany and in the USoA. No 1: No gun can be owned privately unless you prove that you have a clean police sheet and are mentally sane plus have a GOOD reason why you should own one. No 2: You must make sure that NOBODY has access to your gun. We hat one school shooting many years ago and the FATHER of the shooter was prosecuted as he didn't care about its inaccessibility enough ! No 3: Being a hunter in Germany is very EXPENSIVE ! Apart from having to pass a very difficult test where you prove that you can say which hair belongs to which animal or footprint or what the local or regional or federal laws concerning hunting are you also No 4 : have to either OWN your hunting ground or "rent" it. You are then No 5 : RESPONSIBLE for the sustainability of your forest concerning flora and fauna. That said there are illegal gun owners.......
@@seanthiar No, he didn't. Being an active member of a shooting club counts as a good reason under German law. The mere membership isn't enough though, you first have to prove that you actually train there and have decent results (marksmen clubs have loaner weapons that you can use for training under the surveillance of a trusted member there). License administration can also demand licensed gun owners to provide proof that they still have a need for it every once in a while (e.g. still train actively as a sport marksman). Weapon collectors who don't have any other reason to own a gun may only own guns that have first been rendered unusable (which has to be proven by a certificate of a licensed gun store). There are some exceptions for some historical weapons and rebuilds of those, mainly for front loading black powder weapons.
@@seanthiar And you forget the German War Weapons Control Act, which among other things prevents the private ownership of assault rifles. In addition, many guns in shooting clubs are owned by the club and members' private guns are also stored at the club. The rules for storing weapons are very strict in Germany. Among other things, it must be ensured that weapons and ammunition are always stored separately in different, spatially separate safes. This also applies to gun collectors. Speaking of collectors, I've seen videos on YT of an American gun collector owning a German 8.8 anti-aircraft gun and ammo. He also shoots with it at collectors' meetings in the USA. That would be completely impossible in Germany.
Additionally, there is a big difference in who is allowed to actually carry a gun. Sport Marksmen are only allowed to carry their weapon at the ready on a licensed shooting range (no training in your private backyard!). Additionally, they are allowed to transport the weapon from their home to the shooting range or weapon trader and back (duh), but only unloaded and in a locked container. Likewise, hunters are only allowed to carry while in the specific area for which they have the hunting rights (or an area where they have been officially invited as a guest hunter by the rights owner). At home, weapon owners have to store their weapons in locked safes and separate from the ammunition (separate safe or separate locked compartment within the safe). You can take them out on your own property for cleaning, showing or in preparation of a specifically expected self defense situation, but you are not allowed to e.g. keep a weapon in your night stand drawer "just in case". Also, every gun you own has to be registered with the authorities and as a registered gun owner you are obliged to let officers enter your home for a surprise inspection whether you adhere to the regulations for storing them at any time during the day (though it rarely ever happens in practise unless the administration has been tipped off that you violate those rules). Getting a license to actually carry a gun in public for self defense is VERY difficult in Germany. In addition to the hurdles you already have to pass for legally owning the gun, you have to prove that you are under a serious death threat and that other measures of protection (restraining orders, available police protection) are not sufficient for your safety. Even most of private security personell only carry pepper spray or tazers, only high profile body guards might carry guns.
I'm German and I have to confess I was never at the Oktoberfest and I dislike beer so much 😂 but yeah, wherever you go in the world and tell others you're German they immediately think of Bavaria 😂
To answer your question: I don't drink alcohol. Never. I don't like it ^^ but I know many people who drink alcohol-free beer, especially when they need to drive later or are around kids
@@patrick6449 Es heißt immer es gäbe keine dummen Fragen, aber deine beweist das Gegenteil. Ich bin erwachsen! Und das Geschlecht hat nichts damit zu tun, ob eine Person Bier mag oder nicht. Ich bin im Freundeskreis die Einzige, die kein Bier trinkt.
hallo lady bundle, ich mache mir sorgen um dein Wohlbefinden. Es ist nun 2 Wochen her seit dem du dich Geoutet hast. Ich hoffe das hatte keinen negativen Einfluss auf dein leben und das all deine freunde noch mit dir befreundet sein wollen. mfg dein besorgter Landesnachbar!
@@ladybundlebrent3562 Ich trinke auch nicht. Meine Schwester trinkt aber. Ich mag Alkohol nicht. Schmeckt nicht. Und Bier stinkt. Rauchen tu ich auch nicht. Aber viele Leute in meinem Umfeld trinken. Ich find das total ok und es stört mich auch nicht, solange niemand versucht mir Alkohol aufzuschwatzen. Es gab mal ein Silvester wo die eine Frau einfach nicht gerafft hat, dass meine Schwester und ich keinen Sekt wollen. Gruppenzwang existiert leider noch etwas. Vor allem bei den alten leuten. Zumindest soweit ich weiß. Aber in meiner Familie bin ich auch die einzige die nicht trinkt. Schöne Grüße aus Köln.
On the topic of yards: If houses in (historic) city centers have yards, they are usually in the back or enclosed by various houses, while the front is dense. This is in part because there is not much space, but in part also because it makes more sense than a front yard: If I want a yard for growing plants and recreation, a busy road is usually not the best place for it. (Also, in many cities there are Kleingartenkolonien, but people owning or renting their parcels are a very own kind)
I (a German) have never really liked the taste of beer, however I do enjoy mixed drinks such as Radler or less-sweet, non-alcoholic alternatives such as Fassbrause. So now I can enjoy a trip to the "Biergarten" without having to stick to standard soft drinks.
I´m german too and .. well, same. I don't like the taste of pure beer at all, but Radler and Berliner Weiße Waldmeister ... so, yes - mixed drinks are okay. And I would never choose any drink over another JUST because it has alcohol in it. On the contrary, I'm not a big fan of alcohol.
Regarding gardens - we not only have large "Wohngebiete" (living regions) where there's mostly houses for families, in villages and outer spaces of cities. There's also the tradition of "Schrebergarten" - a collection of small gardens where you can rent your back garden - mostly in quiet outer spaces you can walk or bike to. It's popular when you have high density buildings with 4 to 5 story buildings. But we also have large public parks and places for kids to play (Spielplatz) in denser areas - good for meeting other people.
You can substitute a Umlaut with the used vowel and an e. Sticking with your example, Küchen can also be written as Kuechen (especially in crossword puzzles), if you don't want to look up the ascii code or are unaware of the keep-pushed-for-variants method.
Why make such a fuss. I usually say there is no way around and that’s the way they have to write it. Weirdly it works perfectly and they always write it with ä, ö or ü
@@Hoschie-ww7io Not intended to make a fuss. Please don't get me wrong. If you teach it that way and it works than good for you. Keep it that way. 👍🏻 All I wanted to say was that there are always exceptions from the rule.
@@Hoschie-ww7io There are exceptions. In IT it is sometimes better to write ae instead of ä, because there are different representations for the letter. Some programs and filesystems may have problems with it. Or if you exchange a document between Linux and Windows or with different browsers or database applications, you might geht in trouble. In coding it is sometimes allowed, but you should never use it. Even in HTML you might see effects.
From my consumer perspektive, alcohol free beer also becomes more popular due to improved quality. Frankly, 30 years ago, alcohol free beer tasted like horsepiss (or how I Imagine it to taste). 15 years ago it was better, but still had an aftertaste that took some getting used to. Today, alcohol free beer is quite good and not too different from traditional beer with alcohol.
Apart from the taste of alcohol-free beer, when it was first introduced I hear a lot of people go "Why the f.. do I want alcohol-free beer. I'm not drinking it for the taste." ;)
Exactly. The only thing in beer that isn't perfect is the alcohol. Back in the days alcohol-free beer tasted awful. Impossible to drink. I only say Jever Fun (which still tastes awful). Nowadays it tastes most of the time okay, some are good or even great. Up to this day my personal favorite is Bitburger 0% or Bitburger Drive as it's named internationally. Unfortunately it's not exported to many/all countries in the world 😮💨
I absolutely respect having sponsors like local beverage companies for the Spezi-Verkostung or the vineyard tour. That’s really cool and fits into your videos.
We have a Garden.In a Gardener Club .( Gartenverein , Schrebergarten).Many Germany who live in a Apartment have such a garden. Where they can stay with the Family over the Weekend,plant some flowers and vegetables on there own.
A cool video would be to cover those tiny little houses with gardens on the outskirts of cities that people rent the space for gardening. In German I believe they are called Schrebergarten or Kleingarten.
One big lie that is always forgotten is the christmas pickle where everyone in the US "knows" its a German tradition and no German ever heard about that "tradition". BTW if somebody wants to know more about guns should search for the channel of Joerg Sprave a German weapon nerd. A short add on to the Umlaute ä, ü, ö and ß for non German with a standard keyboard. You can replace ä with ae, ü with ue, ö with oe and ß with ss. For example you can write Muenchen or Duesseldorf if you don't have an ü or Koeln if you don't have an ö. Btw German isn't the only language with additional letters. The Scandinavian countries have additional letters too. Sweden, Norway and Denmark have Æ (sounds like the German Ä) , Ø (sounds like the German Ö) and Å is like a long O. Finland have the same letters Norway has but added the German style ä, ö, and ü.
Christmas pickle is not forgotten about, we just talked about it in a different video that you can find here 😂: ua-cam.com/video/S6oTmEWOqgo/v-deo.html
The only sensible replacement for ß that ever existed was :s. Those who worked in telex or typewriters used this because they had learned that replacing ß with sz or ss is a really bad idea. - - - Then suddenly everyone who had access to it started typing their texts into computers and the Internet. Most of them had no idea what mistakes you can make when replacing the ß and how to avoid them. This is why ideas that professionals had long since discarded had made a comeback. - - - ss has never been a suitable substitute for every ß. Since the last spelling reform, it's even completely nonsensical to use ss as a replacement; because in all words in which ss has ever fitted as a substitute, the ß was already officially replaced by ss in 1998. The words that are still spelled with ß today are pronounced completely differently than words with ss. And in surnames, place names and street names, which of course were not affected by the rule change, you should definitely not use ss or sz as a replacement; because the names often also exist in these versions, but they belong to other people, places, streets. It should also be considered that exchanging ß for ss can change the meaning of a word (example: body measurements > body mass).
Joerg doesn't need a gun. His homemade "toy" (yes a toy according to gun law) will go clean trough military grade body armor. and his "safety" t-shirt, can stop sabot tank rounds, but he refuses to admit it ;)
Hey Donnie! I was just watching your your vid, as I often watch your vids cuz they’re good 😅, and I see you mentioned us! Thank you, that was nice of you!
In Germany, only beer is drunk? With a consumption of 6.65 kg of coffee per capita - 8th place on the list of coffee drinkers worldwide - we Germans drink the USA - 18th place - easily under the table with 4.43 kg. Source: Coffee in Numbers - Coffee Report 2017
I think the part was about alcoholic beverages. But there we also don't only drink beer. Wodka, Jägermeister, korn, berliner luft, apfelwein... Germany is more than beer when it comes to alcohol too.
My non-alcohol beer consumption skyrocketed when I stopped seeing it as beer without alcohol - which is somewhat lame - but a soft drink with beer flavor - which is fantastic. I don't have decide any more between a boring sparkling water and some overly sweet, artifically tasting soft drink but I can get a soft drink with low sugar and beer flavor.
yeah, alcohol free beer is very common in Germany, even in pubs! And today the quality and taste is much better than several years ago. You can get really tasty ones without the sweetness, which they had at the beginning.
4:07 I always took Germany as a beer celebratory culture where beer was used to mark special events and to celebrate holidays not "oh look it's 3pm on a Tuesday get the keg"
Wow - you've been just around the corner! That's really cool. I am a happy "Moselaner" from Cochem, so I was quite happy to see you waliking through some vineyards in Ellenz. 😉
We have a large yard, or garden in Germany with an apple tree, a peach tree, a plum tree, black currants, red currants, white currents, gooseberries, three vines, plus raised beds with vegetables, as well as a lawn, and flower beds in front of the house. To the side of the house we have a driveway, and decorative trees. but we live in the country, with a tradition of self sufficiency. Our out building had originally a pigsty.
Being Syrian-German, I don't drink as much alcohol as my mother's side of the family, but I do take a glass in social situations, if Radler isn't available. I really hate that tingly feeling of wine in my throat, so I dilute it with water, unless we're at a restaurant and try a local house wine, e.g. in Spain and Portugal. I prefer the North-German stereotypes much more. Seafood, sailing, swimming, and a rather introverted, reserved mentality over all. About the bananas: After watching one of the food-related shows on the public broadcasting TV, I have learned that monkeys prefer to open it from the bottom because the peeling is much easier with less of it sticking to the pulp. I tried it out, then stuck with it.
Alcohol free beer had a real boom, when a new kind of it has been invented. I remember that as a big step forward somewhere in the 90's. I don't like sweet beverage very much, and so do many beer drinkers. The new method was, to get the alcohol out of a fully brewed beer, with nearly no sugar left in it. That made it possible to brew nonalcoholic beer, that tastes as good as real beer. I guess that explains the boom.
The two-dots-above-above-a-vowel diacritics is used for two different things. It can mark an umlaut and thus represent a different vowel sound, or it can be a diaeresis that indicates that two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately. In the latter sense, it is somewhat akin to indicating a stress on a ‘syllable’. In English, both usages essentially only occur in loan words (or ‘fake’ loan words like Mötley Crü). And while in English a loan word with a diaeresis still honours the original purpose of it when pronouncing the word (eg, naïve), it doesn’t do so with umlauts, either because the original sound doesn’t exist in English (ü) or tends to pronounced already like the German umlaut (eg, gang vs Doppelgänger). Since on top in English loan words with an umlaut are less common than loan words with a diaeresis, when an English speaker (particularly an American one, as diaeresis is more common there) comes across one, they associate it with either an indication to somehow put a ‘stress’ on that vowel or seeing it as completely inconsequential for pronunciation and relatedly also for meaning.
Beer & Alcohol: Non-alcoholic beer had an increasing demand as the limits on "driving drunk" were reduced step by step and I would say the Germans accepted that driving drunk is not a sign of strength and manliness any more. Secondly, US beer contains less alcohol, which might be relevant for tourists from the US. With view to consumption habits: You almost never see someone drink alcohol at an work place (except addicts and celebrations) whereas this seems quite common in US TV productions.
A German pils has between 4,8% to 5,3% vol alcohol. Lighter American beers eg. Bud Light has about 4,2% and the normal Budweiser about 5% alcohol. I don’t think this is a big difference.
I usually drink alcohol-free beer when I have to/or want to drive afterwards, and don't only want to drink Coke the whole time. It is also very refreshing without having the down-effect of the alcohol. Good for sports and work.
Side note - on windows and Linux, on a US keyboard - select "US International" as layout and you'll accesss Umlauts easily via the " key: "a will result in a, "o as ö, "u as ü.
2:18: Actually, sometimes it is better to avoid umlauts. E.g. in file names, because there are different standards and they may get garbled. To maintain readability, they are spelled out ae, oe and ue. This is also how it is done with names in e-mail addresses.
You can write every sign or letter by pressing the Alt-Key and type the specific number for it on the num pad. For example ALT + 156 = £ And there is the windows tool "Zeichentabelle", I think it is called "Character Map" on the English Windows. It is there at least since Windows 95 but maybe longer. Never worked earlier versions. You can choose the font and copy any sign or create a sequence of signs and copy it to the clipboard and paste it from there.
There are different ways to get to additional characters and symbols that are not printed onto your key caps that vary from operating system to operating system (Windows, Mac, Android, etc.). But I wonder why nobody so far has pointed out the most simple one: Switch your keyboard layout to the German one.
Or do the ‘lazy’ way and make ä ae, ü ue, ö oe and the ß as double-s. This is actually the ‘official’ way if your keyboard layout or IT system doesn’t support Umlaute - or in latter case, you want to avoid compatibility issues. One might think this has become obsolete since UTF-8, but especially banks in their transactions and some governmental instances strictly forbid Umlaute (and other ‘special’ characters)
You have a Mac, you can type all the accents by hitting the option key + U to get Ü, similarly you can got most of other accents with other associated vowels é, à, ï etc or consonants > ñ, ç etc.
The attitude towards guns, I think, also depends on whether you are in a city or in the country side. Where I live, in very rural part of Austria, there's a hunter or two in every other household. No hunting without a gun. And if you have a gun, you should also know how to handle it. So people go to shooting ranges on a regular basis.
The difference to the US is, that we have guns for sport, hunting etc. we generally only take it out to do this activities. We don't run around with guns "for self protection from criminals" or simply to stick the point, that we have a right to carry. Because it's not "a right" we have no problem whatsoever to attach responsibilities to it. or get a permit. It's always funny to see the reaction of tourist, when here in Switzerland a few hundred soldiers board a train, with the guns to go home over weekend.
Thanks for the video. It's always nice to watch the both of you. 3:22 Your "ß" is by the way in lower case - unlike the other letters you showed. There is also an uppercase equivalent (ẞ), but not all fonts support it.
he AVUS was, while Berlin was splitted, the start and endpoint of 3 from 4 permitted "Transitstrecken" through the GDR (East-Germany). Nowbody can imasgine the warm feeling we had.every time we came back from holydays and see the old "Funkturm" on the other side of the AVUS:
The letter holding for umlauts only works on android and with the the US-International keyboard layout (which isn't installed by default) or alt codes.
I think you forgott to mention the "Apfelschorle" ... and for the question ... peeling from the side opposite to the stem is way easier, just squeeze and peal.
A reaction about the Umlaut. In dutch we don't have that but combine letters to a different sound such a oe, ui or ou. Then some German and Scandinavian book printers found it easier to put on Umlaut on. That saves a letter.That's why, a printers trick.
It's true that we Germans drink non-alcoholic versions of beers from time to time. I've never really thought about it, but I think it's strongly related to the after-work culture that we have here and it's just part of it to drink a beer with friends in the evening - may it be with alcohol or not. However, one must also say that the taste also differs. Although both taste good.
02:42 Not on any normal computer. Holding a key down makes that key repeat. There is no easy way to type a vowel with an umlaut on a normal US keyboard.
I am an older German from Bavaria. We called beer "liquid bread" and it was traditionally part of the "Abendbrot". Drinking beer is an enjoyment like a good glass of wine for the French. In the older days every brewery had a "Wirtshaus/Gasthaus" or maybe the other way around, but while mother prepared the table for the Abendbrot the son, still a boy, was sent with a jug to the Wirtshaus to get it freshly filled. This was custom in the villages. Coming from Bavaria I know little about wine, so thank you for educating me about it.
German here. I changed to alcohol free beer, because I love the taste, but didn't want to drink so much alcohol. Given, alcohol free beer does taste very different to alcoholic beer, but it has alot of similarities, which I find refreshing. It has become more and more normalized to drink non-alcoholic beer here, yet a good 15+ years ago it was not as common as nowadays. Alot of people try to live healthier and that includes cutting down on alcohol.
About the guns, in the northern parts, at least were I grew up, you have a yearly festivity (Schützenfest) to crown the shooting king (Schützenkönig/paar). That happend in every little village. There are specific clubs for it and it is viewed as a tradition and sport. Also, I now life in the south/south/east, BaWü and some people dont know about Schützenfest.
by the in acknowlegment of foreign keyboards and filling out formulars - you can Ä Ü Ö can also written AE OE UE - - so München can -if needed- also written Muenchen ...
I peel a banana from the stem. I feel it is easier to break the peel in that way without getting your fingertips dirty, since starting from the bottom needs more work for the sections to separate.
Fun video enjoyed it but although I am a Schweizer from the French part of Switzerland I am somehow surprised that you didn’t mention that the “Ü” can be replaced while writing by “UE” and it is the same with the “ä/ae, ö/oe” 😉 So no worries if you can’t find the “umlaut” on your keyboard ! 🙃
don't forget you can also ride ä,ö,ü simply ae, oe, ue that's also corect, ß can be traslatet with ss thats kind of wrong but most people will understand it.
How I peel a banana depends upon what I’m going to do with it. If I already have a knife in my hand because I plan on slicing it I will peel from the top because it effectively removes the little seedy bit at the bottom; I can make a small cut at the top to make peeling easy. If I’m going to peel a banana to eat it whole I will peel it from the end because it’s much easier and it doesn’t squish the banana.
only a word to the gardens ... in germany (and also in switzerland) .. people who don't have their own garden often have an allotment garden, it's a small rented garden - area to use .. many large cities offer this in their outskirts to enable people to have a garden
im drinking alcohol free beer usually in relaxed social situation in the summer, like on the local bagger-see as a refreshing Drink. And its Alcohol Free because, well you can still drive after drinking it!
3:13 Since a few months (years maybe?) there is even an official big ß (namely ẞ), which would be more appropriate in your list of capitalized letters.
Non-alcoholic beer has always been my go to drink, when I was the driver of our group, and I got so used to it, that I order it instead of lemonade or soda nowadays, when I do not want to drink alcohol. Try alcohol free Weißbier (or Hefeweizen as we would say in Bavaria) mixed with Almdudler. It is one of the most refreshing sunmer drinks one can have. Even better with "Kristallweizen" I like your videos, big thumps up!
I think the only thing as a European that shocked me about America, was being warned not to go for a walk in the woods, as I may be shot as game. If game shooting happens in Europe, it is in private estates, or there are many warning signs, they are organised. Some deer shooting is late in the evening, or very early morning, but I have never heard of anyone ever being shot. Maybe also a cyclone warning, saying what to do, we rarely have cyclones in the parts of Europe, where I have lived. Also medical costs, I broke my ankle in Arizona, I had to have two pins put in my ankle. It cost around five times the European cost, but I had to combine two insurances to pay for it, and all the time I had threatening letters from America. That just doesn't happen in Europe. Practically everyone has medical insurance.
Bananas? Neither stem nor stern. The stem is sometimes hard to get started, and it bruises the tip of the fruit. I usually pull at the middle of a seam and unzip from there. Why would anyone start at the bottom?
Indeed, well-assumed. I often drink (meanwhile) the alcohol-free version of beer. I enjoy drinking beer, but I do not enjoy being drunk so much. So that combines it both well and makes me often (not always) choose the alcohol-free version :)
Alcohol-free-Beer: The thing is, it is tasty, nutritious and low in (regular) sugar, so it is highly isotonic and helps you recover quickly after sports. 2ndly, there are a bunch of alcohol free radler, e.g. with grapefruit, cactus-fruit or maracuja, that taste like a lemonade-beer mixture and can also be obtained alcohol-free, so with alcohol -> a slight mood lifter (2,5%Alc) -> without alcohol simply a highly refreshing drink. Breweries are even selling their own homemade/breweriemade natural lemonades, for which as far as I know Paulaner's Spezi is the most famous one, bout the breweries are very creative in their products and they do a fantastic job at that!
I think the difference about owning a gun is in America pretty much everybody could get it easier und in Germany it requires some stuff to be able to get it.
If you don't have Umlaute on your keyboard, you can also spell "ue" instead of "ü", "ae" for "ä", "oe" for "ö". Or you can google a virtual keyboard and type the text there, then copy/paste... Or you just copy/paste the letter and use it when you need it. I have a German keyboard and I don't have some French characters like "c cédille" for instance. I've lived in and around Trier for about a year in the late 1980s. We used to buy the wine from the small Winzer in the villages directly. I peel bananas from the stem, but I heard that chimps do it the other way round.
What you call the bottom of the banana is actually the top when the banana is still on the tree. And yep, that's where I start prepping it, not at the stem.
Regarding wine: Yield restrictions per area are not a Germany specific thing. Those apply at least basically everywhere in the old world. They depend on the particular appellation the wine is released under. For example in Italy, requirements for a Barolo DOCG (maximum yield of 8 tons per hectar or 7.2 in case of single wineyard barolo) will be different when compared to a Langhe nebbiolo (10 tons). In general, rules for wine are much stricter in the old world than in the new world (US, south africa, australia). Both has its advantages. Strict rules in the old world assure quality and typicity for a certain regions (there are plenty of rules for each appelation including the regulation of the permitted grapes and quite a few restrictions on wine making techniques). This has advantages for consumers which know rather easily what they will get based on the appelation on the label. However, the system can often be a bit stubborn and reluctant to change, which can be a problem with changing winemaking techniques and climate. New world rules are way more flexible - which allows faster adaptations to changes and more freedom for winemakers but makes consumer life a bit more difficult.
The thing about the umlaut-dots is absolutely hilarious. I have no Idea how Americans got that Idea but I also know that the Umlauts are quite popular in Heavy Metal and there are quite a few Metal Bands who use them for their Band Names because they look so metal but pronouncing them as if the Letters had no dots. This led to a funny scene when the Band Mötley Crüe (pronounced "Motley Crew") came to Germany the first time and Fans where chanting their band name with the German pronunciation of the umlauts. They were definitely somewhat bewildered ;-)
Isotonische Hopfenkaltschale? For me, it is the go-to refreshment after a hike, sports, any thirst-inducing activity. It serves very well to quench the thirst without the sugar or sweetener penalties. Alcohol-free beer came a long way and the art has matured in the last 5-7 years. It used to be barely drinkable, but nowadays it is actually rather enjoyable, especially Hefeweizen. In addition, you can drink it at any time of the day without getting tipsy. I usually don't get along with alcohol when the sun is over the yardarm.
alcohol-free beer used to be horrific, they've cracked it for many years now. I almost enjoy it more now, since I can drink without thinking about the alcohol. for wine though, alcohol-free is a no-go
1st time viewer - so - two things: #1, if you are in the Mosel area you must, make that MUST go to Briedel on the Mosel just down river from Zell and visit the winery of the Kroth family. I was stationed at Hahn AB in the early 70's and had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Herr Kroth and sampling his excellent product. I understand the next generation has taken over the family business but I have no doubt they still make the best wine in the area. Oh, as to your question about peeling bananas - humans tend to peel using the stem, but the expert banana peelers - apes in general - peel from the stub at what we think of as the end or bottom of the banana. They don't have to deal with those annoying stringy things like we humans do.
One of the first successful 0% beers was created in the Netherlands. It is called Bavaria. When the American army was stationed in Saudi Arabia just before the gulf war, the US army was not allowed to import beer (because it contained alcohol). So when the army learned about the 0% beer Bavaria, they tasted it. It was a success both for the US army and of course for the brewers of Bavaria.
7:59 at home I just have alkoholfreies Bier, not wine though. Anyway usually I am just drinking alcohol when socializing. Soft drinks often have toooo much sugar. Another point is there is Radler sauer, means diluting beer with water not Sprite which is available as well in a alcohol free version. Anyway there are Bierfestivals and Winefestivals, one can drink beer or wine there :) the naming depends on the region if it is possible to grow wine or hops or brew. As I am living now in Franconia ther is so called Wine-Franconia and Beer-Franconia. :)
I'm missing the re-opening of my city's wine festival this week while on vacation (they'll still be running when I get back). Our own region grows quite a bit of fruit and wine. Cider (Most) is also traditional here, as are some pretty good local Brennereien. And I open my bananas from the stem. Like a normal person ;)
Besides the guns for hunting and sports, which are highly regulated by the authorities (you have to have a membership in a sports club (Schützenverein) or have to have a hunting license for these guns) there are in general two other possible options to own a gun in Germany. You can be a collector for guns. I’m this case you obviously are not allowed to buy ammunition for it. The other option is to buy a blank gun. These are actually free to buy in Germany for every one over 18 years. For these guns you can buy (blank) ammunition as well. Just carrying these guns ist restricted to a license which you can apply for at local authority, which does a background check in this case. Otherwise you are only allowed to transport the guns from one private property to another one in an not loaded state in a locked case or something similar. So there are some ways to own guns. If someone from America would consider a blank gun a “real” gun or not would be interesting to me. According to the actual threat caused by these guns I (and the German law) consider these as guns since in many ways these are as dangerous as the normal ones (especially at a close range).
Ich frage mich, wie viele bei Parties und Volksfesten oder wo auch immer, Alkoholfreies trinken, dies aber den anwesenden Freunden verschweigen. Dazu müsste man iwie vorher dem Kellner flüsstern, dass er das Maß Bier mit Alkoholfreiem befüllt.
I haven't decided if I'll go this year. I'm kind of curious to see how it's bouncing back, but I have to admit, I've mostly found it to be a PITA with all the drunks on the trains.
I would say: Look for real friends ! Whoever tries to peer pressure you is probably not your friend. Whoever tries to peer pressure, when there are good reasons for your decision surely isn't !
Are there any lies the other way around that Germans have been told about the US that you’ve found to be false??
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That we started WW....oh...no that one is true :(
Of course, a ß is not a B, it is a whip! :)
I'm from germany, and i never saw a gun irl :D
That the USA are „the greatest country on earth“ and that anyone can get rich if only they try (no money or connections needed).
Both have been proven wrong to me by my family in the USA.
I went to NY to see cowboys on horses chasing Indians, didn't see a single one of both.
But it still is 'the Center of the World' they said, but it smelled after something else, piles of garbage and filthy streets.
There are a lot of false images about the US in Europe as well, but with a little bit of reading and a closer view, you can quickly see through the decor.
What struck me was the poverty in large cities, homelessness, and addiction.
And a lot of 'fake' were tourists come, and exaggeration of 'happiness' as well.
The US is an interesting country, with a lot of beautiful landscapes and many nice people, but just as anywhere else in the world it isn't paradise.
The biggest lie Americans are told about Germans is that Germany is all about lederhosen, half-timbered houses, sauerkraut, pretzels, white sausage and beer. Many Americans are also taught that you can drive as fast as you want on every German Autobahn.
This is true...but we had to change it up and not make another video about this stereotype of "all of Germany is just like Bavaria" 😂 To add onto the autobahn lie, most Americans also think the Autobahn is just a single famous road 😅
That's funny. There are about 122 Autobahnen in Germany and on most of them there are so many traffic jams every day that you often stand more than you drive.
c@@VOLTAIRE_DORTMUND You are just using them at the wrong hour of the day - go for nights, between 2 and 4 am .. they are much emptier then. OK, it has been a while since I drove on a Autobahn. It has been a while since I drove period
@@PassportTwo That 'single famous road' exists, it is the AVUS in Berlin, which basically is hostorically the first Autobahn of Germany.
@@franhunne8929 You're aware that you should only drive at a speed where you can stop within the range of your headlights at night? Agreed, German deer are smaller than moose or American elks, but I wouldn't want to hit one anyway, and they roam at night. There are no fences, and it's not uncommon to see an animal on the autobahn now and then.
I'm Czech, not German, but in beer consumption that doesn't matter(and in terms of culture, we are much closer to Germans and Austrians cause we shared 1000years of history with them. We are basically Germans with Slavic language). I'm an abstinent but I really like the taste of beer, so I drink only non-alcoholic beer. Also the Czech culture revolves about beer and a lot of Czechs are abstinents now, so you can buy non alcoholic beer even at local pub in your village with 200 inhabitants.
I do the same in Germany. Beer just tastes great, but I don't like alcohol and I feel like it has become more normal to drink non-alcoholic beer at least among younger people.
I'm curious - do many Czechs actually describe themselves as a kind of German with just a different language ? There sure is a lot of shared history and similarities like the beer-brewing, engineering, mining.....
@@theoderich1168 I'm a German of Czech descent, so the other way around works too. Also, drinking a cool Budzvar (not non-alcoholic) right now.
@@theoderich1168 Depends on the generation. Before WWII about third of the Czechoslovakian population was Sudeten German.After the war all Germans were violently deported to Germany (lot of Czechs actually defend this awful action) after that the Communists started massive anti-german Slavic brothers propaganda that lasted 40 years. The relationships between countries are better now, but there are still dumb people (mainly Facebook comments) that still blame Germans for the war and shit. I stand with my claim, that we are culturally Austrian and German (cuisine is also similar, we eat Schnitzel and potato salad and a lot of meat with dumplings) but if you asked Czechs on the street, the majority would disagree with me. Actually there are some people in Czechia that believe in Pan-Slavism and support Serbia and shit
@@matkys Thank you very much for replying, that is very interesting to know; geographically Czechia sure is a part of the central European area, like the German speaking neighbours.... Have a good weekend and greetings from the Teutoburg Forest
Well, there is a difference between owning a gun in Europe/Germany and in the USoA.
No 1: No gun can be owned privately unless you prove that you have a clean police sheet
and are mentally sane plus have a GOOD reason why you should own one.
No 2: You must make sure that NOBODY has access to your gun.
We hat one school shooting many years ago and the FATHER of the shooter was
prosecuted as he didn't care about its inaccessibility enough !
No 3: Being a hunter in Germany is very EXPENSIVE !
Apart from having to pass a very difficult test where you prove that you can say which
hair belongs to which animal or footprint or what the local or regional or federal laws
concerning hunting are you also
No 4 : have to either OWN your hunting ground or "rent" it. You are then
No 5 : RESPONSIBLE for the sustainability of your forest concerning flora and fauna.
That said there are illegal gun owners.......
you forget all members of shooting clubs and weapon collectors in Europe.
@@seanthiar No, he didn't. Being an active member of a shooting club counts as a good reason under German law. The mere membership isn't enough though, you first have to prove that you actually train there and have decent results (marksmen clubs have loaner weapons that you can use for training under the surveillance of a trusted member there). License administration can also demand licensed gun owners to provide proof that they still have a need for it every once in a while (e.g. still train actively as a sport marksman).
Weapon collectors who don't have any other reason to own a gun may only own guns that have first been rendered unusable (which has to be proven by a certificate of a licensed gun store). There are some exceptions for some historical weapons and rebuilds of those, mainly for front loading black powder weapons.
@@seanthiar And you forget the German War Weapons Control Act, which among other things prevents the private ownership of assault rifles. In addition, many guns in shooting clubs are owned by the club and members' private guns are also stored at the club. The rules for storing weapons are very strict in Germany. Among other things, it must be ensured that weapons and ammunition are always stored separately in different, spatially separate safes. This also applies to gun collectors. Speaking of collectors, I've seen videos on YT of an American gun collector owning a German 8.8 anti-aircraft gun and ammo. He also shoots with it at collectors' meetings in the USA. That would be completely impossible in Germany.
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Can confirm that. A relative has a hunting area and he pays every year about 5.000 EUR for the disposal of boars that are to radioactive.
Additionally, there is a big difference in who is allowed to actually carry a gun. Sport Marksmen are only allowed to carry their weapon at the ready on a licensed shooting range (no training in your private backyard!). Additionally, they are allowed to transport the weapon from their home to the shooting range or weapon trader and back (duh), but only unloaded and in a locked container. Likewise, hunters are only allowed to carry while in the specific area for which they have the hunting rights (or an area where they have been officially invited as a guest hunter by the rights owner). At home, weapon owners have to store their weapons in locked safes and separate from the ammunition (separate safe or separate locked compartment within the safe). You can take them out on your own property for cleaning, showing or in preparation of a specifically expected self defense situation, but you are not allowed to e.g. keep a weapon in your night stand drawer "just in case". Also, every gun you own has to be registered with the authorities and as a registered gun owner you are obliged to let officers enter your home for a surprise inspection whether you adhere to the regulations for storing them at any time during the day (though it rarely ever happens in practise unless the administration has been tipped off that you violate those rules).
Getting a license to actually carry a gun in public for self defense is VERY difficult in Germany. In addition to the hurdles you already have to pass for legally owning the gun, you have to prove that you are under a serious death threat and that other measures of protection (restraining orders, available police protection) are not sufficient for your safety. Even most of private security personell only carry pepper spray or tazers, only high profile body guards might carry guns.
I'm German and I have to confess I was never at the Oktoberfest and I dislike beer so much 😂 but yeah, wherever you go in the world and tell others you're German they immediately think of Bavaria 😂
To answer your question: I don't drink alcohol. Never. I don't like it ^^ but I know many people who drink alcohol-free beer, especially when they need to drive later or are around kids
@@ladybundlebrent3562 bist du ein Mädchen?
@@patrick6449 Es heißt immer es gäbe keine dummen Fragen, aber deine beweist das Gegenteil. Ich bin erwachsen! Und das Geschlecht hat nichts damit zu tun, ob eine Person Bier mag oder nicht. Ich bin im Freundeskreis die Einzige, die kein Bier trinkt.
hallo lady bundle, ich mache mir sorgen um dein Wohlbefinden. Es ist nun 2 Wochen her seit dem du dich Geoutet hast. Ich hoffe das hatte keinen negativen Einfluss auf dein leben und das all deine freunde noch mit dir befreundet sein wollen. mfg dein besorgter Landesnachbar!
@@ladybundlebrent3562 Ich trinke auch nicht. Meine Schwester trinkt aber. Ich mag Alkohol nicht. Schmeckt nicht. Und Bier stinkt. Rauchen tu ich auch nicht. Aber viele Leute in meinem Umfeld trinken. Ich find das total ok und es stört mich auch nicht, solange niemand versucht mir Alkohol aufzuschwatzen. Es gab mal ein Silvester wo die eine Frau einfach nicht gerafft hat, dass meine Schwester und ich keinen Sekt wollen. Gruppenzwang existiert leider noch etwas. Vor allem bei den alten leuten. Zumindest soweit ich weiß. Aber in meiner Familie bin ich auch die einzige die nicht trinkt. Schöne Grüße aus Köln.
On the topic of yards: If houses in (historic) city centers have yards, they are usually in the back or enclosed by various houses, while the front is dense. This is in part because there is not much space, but in part also because it makes more sense than a front yard: If I want a yard for growing plants and recreation, a busy road is usually not the best place for it. (Also, in many cities there are Kleingartenkolonien, but people owning or renting their parcels are a very own kind)
And in a couple cases the roads were simply widened after the war, but the houses were rebuilt on the old spot.
This is perhaps the best sponsor placement i've seen in years. Well transitioned. Hut ab!
Vielen Dank 😊
@@PassportTwo I used that service for a boat trip through Berlin. Really good and recommendable.
I agree. The first time I watched an advertisement in a UA-cam video to the end.
I (a German) have never really liked the taste of beer, however I do enjoy mixed drinks such as Radler or less-sweet, non-alcoholic alternatives such as Fassbrause. So now I can enjoy a trip to the "Biergarten" without having to stick to standard soft drinks.
Fassbrause? I always thought this was a euphemism for beer, like Hopfenkaltschale or Hopfentee...
yikes. just yikes
@@peterkoller3761 no its basically a sweet softdrink like aheu brause. but already mixed
@@peterkoller3761 It was a euphemism at one point until some brewerys started to make mixed drinks named like that
I´m german too and .. well, same. I don't like the taste of pure beer at all, but Radler and Berliner Weiße Waldmeister ... so, yes - mixed drinks are okay. And I would never choose any drink over another JUST because it has alcohol in it. On the contrary, I'm not a big fan of alcohol.
Regarding gardens - we not only have large "Wohngebiete" (living regions) where there's mostly houses for families, in villages and outer spaces of cities. There's also the tradition of "Schrebergarten" - a collection of small gardens where you can rent your back garden - mostly in quiet outer spaces you can walk or bike to. It's popular when you have high density buildings with 4 to 5 story buildings. But we also have large public parks and places for kids to play (Spielplatz) in denser areas - good for meeting other people.
Thanks for the video and the bloppers at the end, it showed the reality of creating content for UA-cam. From 🇨🇦
You can substitute a Umlaut with the used vowel and an e. Sticking with your example, Küchen can also be written as Kuechen (especially in crossword puzzles), if you don't want to look up the ascii code or are unaware of the keep-pushed-for-variants method.
In earlier times, when printing books/newspapers, : ae;oe;ue or instead of ß-ss were often written.
Why make such a fuss. I usually say there is no way around and that’s the way they have to write it. Weirdly it works perfectly and they always write it with ä, ö or ü
@@Hoschie-ww7io Not intended to make a fuss. Please don't get me wrong.
If you teach it that way and it works than good for you. Keep it that way. 👍🏻 All I wanted to say was that there are always exceptions from the rule.
@@Hoschie-ww7io When handwritten, that's perfectly reasonable. But not every font even has the letters, so it may be for purely practical reasons.
@@Hoschie-ww7io There are exceptions. In IT it is sometimes better to write ae instead of ä, because there are different representations for the letter. Some programs and filesystems may have problems with it. Or if you exchange a document between Linux and Windows or with different browsers or database applications, you might geht in trouble. In coding it is sometimes allowed, but you should never use it. Even in HTML you might see effects.
From my consumer perspektive, alcohol free beer also becomes more popular due to improved quality. Frankly, 30 years ago, alcohol free beer tasted like horsepiss (or how I Imagine it to taste). 15 years ago it was better, but still had an aftertaste that took some getting used to. Today, alcohol free beer is quite good and not too different from traditional beer with alcohol.
Apart from the taste of alcohol-free beer, when it was first introduced I hear a lot of people go "Why the f.. do I want alcohol-free beer. I'm not drinking it for the taste." ;)
Exactly. The only thing in beer that isn't perfect is the alcohol. Back in the days alcohol-free beer tasted awful. Impossible to drink. I only say Jever Fun (which still tastes awful). Nowadays it tastes most of the time okay, some are good or even great. Up to this day my personal favorite is Bitburger 0% or Bitburger Drive as it's named internationally. Unfortunately it's not exported to many/all countries in the world 😮💨
I absolutely respect having sponsors like local beverage companies for the Spezi-Verkostung or the vineyard tour. That’s really cool and fits into your videos.
We have a Garden.In a Gardener Club .( Gartenverein , Schrebergarten).Many Germany who live in a Apartment have such a garden. Where they can stay with the Family over the Weekend,plant some flowers and vegetables on there own.
A cool video would be to cover those tiny little houses with gardens on the outskirts of cities that people rent the space for gardening. In German I believe they are called Schrebergarten or Kleingarten.
The heaviest lie I heard about Germany is, that we are socialist. We are social, but not socialist.
One big lie that is always forgotten is the christmas pickle where everyone in the US "knows" its a German tradition and no German ever heard about that "tradition".
BTW if somebody wants to know more about guns should search for the channel of Joerg Sprave a German weapon nerd.
A short add on to the Umlaute ä, ü, ö and ß for non German with a standard keyboard. You can replace ä with ae, ü with ue, ö with oe and ß with ss. For example you can write Muenchen or Duesseldorf if you don't have an ü or Koeln if you don't have an ö.
Btw German isn't the only language with additional letters. The Scandinavian countries have additional letters too. Sweden, Norway and Denmark have Æ (sounds like the German Ä) , Ø (sounds like the German Ö) and Å is like a long O. Finland have the same letters Norway has but added the German style ä, ö, and ü.
Christmas pickle is not forgotten about, we just talked about it in a different video that you can find here 😂: ua-cam.com/video/S6oTmEWOqgo/v-deo.html
Sweden has ä and ö just like Finland and Germany. Denmark and Norway have æ and ø 😉
The only sensible replacement for ß that ever existed was :s. Those who worked in telex or typewriters used this because they had learned that replacing ß with sz or ss is a really bad idea. - - - Then suddenly everyone who had access to it started typing their texts into computers and the Internet. Most of them had no idea what mistakes you can make when replacing the ß and how to avoid them. This is why ideas that professionals had long since discarded had made a comeback. - - - ss has never been a suitable substitute for every ß. Since the last spelling reform, it's even completely nonsensical to use ss as a replacement; because in all words in which ss has ever fitted as a substitute, the ß was already officially replaced by ss in 1998. The words that are still spelled with ß today are pronounced completely differently than words with ss. And in surnames, place names and street names, which of course were not affected by the rule change, you should definitely not use ss or sz as a replacement; because the names often also exist in these versions, but they belong to other people, places, streets. It should also be considered that exchanging ß for ss can change the meaning of a word (example: body measurements > body mass).
Joerg doesn't need a gun. His homemade "toy" (yes a toy according to gun law) will go clean trough military grade body armor. and his "safety" t-shirt, can stop sabot tank rounds, but he refuses to admit it ;)
Actually. The Chrismas pickle IS a tradition in my extended family ( I am German). So that does exist.
Hey Donnie! I was just watching your your vid, as I often watch your vids cuz they’re good 😅, and I see you mentioned us! Thank you, that was nice of you!
I also often watch your videos cuz they're great, hence the mention! 😊 Have a good time on your vacation!
In Germany, only beer is drunk? With a consumption of 6.65 kg of coffee per capita - 8th place on the list of coffee drinkers worldwide - we Germans drink the USA - 18th place - easily under the table with 4.43 kg. Source: Coffee in Numbers - Coffee Report 2017
I think the part was about alcoholic beverages. But there we also don't only drink beer. Wodka, Jägermeister, korn, berliner luft, apfelwein... Germany is more than beer when it comes to alcohol too.
And theres tea. We do drink so much tea!
@@sisuguillam5109 are you Ostfriese?
@@jennyh4025 part of my family very much is!
My non-alcohol beer consumption skyrocketed when I stopped seeing it as beer without alcohol - which is somewhat lame - but a soft drink with beer flavor - which is fantastic. I don't have decide any more between a boring sparkling water and some overly sweet, artifically tasting soft drink but I can get a soft drink with low sugar and beer flavor.
yeah, alcohol free beer is very common in Germany, even in pubs! And today the quality and taste is much better than several years ago. You can get really tasty ones without the sweetness, which they had at the beginning.
4:07 I always took Germany as a beer celebratory culture where beer was used to mark special events and to celebrate holidays not "oh look it's 3pm on a Tuesday get the keg"
Wow - you've been just around the corner! That's really cool. I am a happy "Moselaner" from Cochem, so I was quite happy to see you waliking through some vineyards in Ellenz. 😉
Great Video, thank You for your comments about this very interesting country.
Luis
We have a large yard, or garden in Germany with an apple tree, a peach tree, a plum tree, black currants, red currants, white currents, gooseberries, three vines, plus raised beds with vegetables, as well as a lawn, and flower beds in front of the house. To the side of the house we have a driveway, and decorative trees. but we live in the country, with a tradition of self sufficiency. Our out building had originally a pigsty.
Being Syrian-German, I don't drink as much alcohol as my mother's side of the family, but I do take a glass in social situations, if Radler isn't available. I really hate that tingly feeling of wine in my throat, so I dilute it with water, unless we're at a restaurant and try a local house wine, e.g. in Spain and Portugal.
I prefer the North-German stereotypes much more. Seafood, sailing, swimming, and a rather introverted, reserved mentality over all.
About the bananas: After watching one of the food-related shows on the public broadcasting TV, I have learned that monkeys prefer to open it from the bottom because the peeling is much easier with less of it sticking to the pulp. I tried it out, then stuck with it.
Tbh only barbarians drink none diluted wine ;)
Alcohol free beer had a real boom, when a new kind of it has been invented. I remember that as a big step forward somewhere in the 90's. I don't like sweet beverage very much, and so do many beer drinkers. The new method was, to get the alcohol out of a fully brewed beer, with nearly no sugar left in it. That made it possible to brew nonalcoholic beer, that tastes as good as real beer. I guess that explains the boom.
It is common to use ue, oe and ae instead of ü ö or ä if there is no way to use Umlaute in Germany.
The two-dots-above-above-a-vowel diacritics is used for two different things. It can mark an umlaut and thus represent a different vowel sound, or it can be a diaeresis that indicates that two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately. In the latter sense, it is somewhat akin to indicating a stress on a ‘syllable’. In English, both usages essentially only occur in loan words (or ‘fake’ loan words like Mötley Crü). And while in English a loan word with a diaeresis still honours the original purpose of it when pronouncing the word (eg, naïve), it doesn’t do so with umlauts, either because the original sound doesn’t exist in English (ü) or tends to pronounced already like the German umlaut (eg, gang vs Doppelgänger).
Since on top in English loan words with an umlaut are less common than loan words with a diaeresis, when an English speaker (particularly an American one, as diaeresis is more common there) comes across one, they associate it with either an indication to somehow put a ‘stress’ on that vowel or seeing it as completely inconsequential for pronunciation and relatedly also for meaning.
7:41 Greetings from Austria! I only drink alcohol-free beer when I'm driving. Thanks for asking and have a nice day haha
8:33 Yes, it is indeed not shamefull to ask for an alcohol-free beer also here in Austria.
Beer & Alcohol: Non-alcoholic beer had an increasing demand as the limits on "driving drunk" were reduced step by step and I would say the Germans accepted that driving drunk is not a sign of strength and manliness any more. Secondly, US beer contains less alcohol, which might be relevant for tourists from the US. With view to consumption habits: You almost never see someone drink alcohol at an work place (except addicts and celebrations) whereas this seems quite common in US TV productions.
A German pils has between 4,8% to 5,3% vol alcohol. Lighter American beers eg. Bud Light has about 4,2% and the normal Budweiser about 5% alcohol. I don’t think this is a big difference.
I usually drink alcohol-free beer when I have to/or want to drive afterwards, and don't only want to drink Coke the whole time.
It is also very refreshing without having the down-effect of the alcohol. Good for sports and work.
Side note - on windows and Linux, on a US keyboard - select "US International" as layout and you'll accesss Umlauts easily via the " key: "a will result in a, "o as ö, "u as ü.
9:45 White socks and Birkenstocks…
I think you are already Germanized 😅
Love when my “Easter eggs” are caught 😂 Nice catch!
i just wanted to post the same when i saw that you were quicker
@@heikokappes5190 yeah i'm a fast boy. My wife always complains about it 😉😁
Never been so fast. Glad you're back.
Haha, congrats! Glad you are back for more as well 😊
2:18: Actually, sometimes it is better to avoid umlauts. E.g. in file names, because there are different standards and they may get garbled. To maintain readability, they are spelled out ae, oe and ue. This is also how it is done with names in e-mail addresses.
White socks in sandals at 9:44. You really adapted well to German culture. ;-)
WE LOVE THE MOSEL! Working on moving there this summer!!! Planning our great escape from America!
You can write every sign or letter by pressing the Alt-Key and type the specific number for it on the num pad.
For example ALT + 156 = £
And there is the windows tool "Zeichentabelle", I think it is called "Character Map" on the English Windows.
It is there at least since Windows 95 but maybe longer. Never worked earlier versions.
You can choose the font and copy any sign or create a sequence of signs and copy it to the clipboard and paste it from there.
There are different ways to get to additional characters and symbols that are not printed onto your key caps that vary from operating system to operating system (Windows, Mac, Android, etc.). But I wonder why nobody so far has pointed out the most simple one: Switch your keyboard layout to the German one.
Or do the ‘lazy’ way and make ä ae, ü ue, ö oe and the ß as double-s.
This is actually the ‘official’ way if your keyboard layout or IT system doesn’t support Umlaute - or in latter case, you want to avoid compatibility issues. One might think this has become obsolete since UTF-8, but especially banks in their transactions and some governmental instances strictly forbid Umlaute (and other ‘special’ characters)
Alcohol free Radler - a great summer drink.
3:20 you can also substitute the umlauts and the "sharp s" with standard ASCII letters, though:
ä > ae
ö > oe
ü > ue
ß > ss
First thought on the Point of alcohol free Beer.
"Radler ist kein Alkohol"
Lol, there’s another drink we had never heard of before moving to Germany!
@@PassportTwo Have you never heard of a shandy either? as a radler is basically the german version of a shandy
You have a Mac, you can type all the accents by hitting the option key + U to get Ü, similarly you can got most of other accents with other associated vowels é, à, ï etc or consonants > ñ, ç etc.
The attitude towards guns, I think, also depends on whether you are in a city or in the country side. Where I live, in very rural part of Austria, there's a hunter or two in every other household. No hunting without a gun. And if you have a gun, you should also know how to handle it. So people go to shooting ranges on a regular basis.
The difference to the US is, that we have guns for sport, hunting etc. we generally only take it out to do this activities. We don't run around with guns "for self protection from criminals" or simply to stick the point, that we have a right to carry. Because it's not "a right" we have no problem whatsoever to attach responsibilities to it. or get a permit.
It's always funny to see the reaction of tourist, when here in Switzerland a few hundred soldiers board a train, with the guns to go home over weekend.
@@beyondEVonly take guns out for recreational activities? your 5fold gun related death rate in the US compared to Germany proves the opposite.
Thanks for the video. It's always nice to watch the both of you.
3:22 Your "ß" is by the way in lower case - unlike the other letters you showed. There is also an uppercase equivalent (ẞ), but not all fonts support it.
he AVUS was, while Berlin was splitted, the start and endpoint of 3 from 4 permitted "Transitstrecken" through the GDR (East-Germany). Nowbody can imasgine the warm feeling we had.every time we came back from holydays and see the old "Funkturm" on the other side of the AVUS:
In the example of 3:01 the word "Küchen" would actually mean kitchens (plural) not kitchen (singular). "Küche" is the singular form.
The letter holding for umlauts only works on android and with the the US-International keyboard layout (which isn't installed by default) or alt codes.
The sandals with the with socks. Perfection 👌
I love the Outtakes :)
Some times I peel from the stem towards the bottom but they are even crazy times and I peel the other way around. 🤪
I think you forgott to mention the "Apfelschorle" ...
and for the question ... peeling from the side opposite to the stem is way easier, just squeeze and peal.
A reaction about the Umlaut. In dutch we don't have that but combine letters to a different sound such a oe, ui or ou. Then some German and Scandinavian book printers found it easier to put on Umlaut on. That saves a letter.That's why, a printers trick.
It's true that we Germans drink non-alcoholic versions of beers from time to time. I've never really thought about it, but I think it's strongly related to the after-work culture that we have here and it's just part of it to drink a beer with friends in the evening - may it be with alcohol or not. However, one must also say that the taste also differs. Although both taste good.
02:42 Not on any normal computer. Holding a key down makes that key repeat. There is no easy way to type a vowel with an umlaut on a normal US keyboard.
What kind of special unique computer do you think I have that I can do that? 😂 I just have a regular ol’ Mac and that’s how it works!
@@PassportTwo A small minority of people use Macs.
I am an older German from Bavaria. We called beer "liquid bread" and it was traditionally part of the "Abendbrot". Drinking beer is an enjoyment like a good glass of wine for the French. In the older days every brewery had a "Wirtshaus/Gasthaus" or maybe the other way around, but while mother prepared the table for the Abendbrot the son, still a boy, was sent with a jug to the Wirtshaus to get it freshly filled. This was custom in the villages. Coming from Bavaria I know little about wine, so thank you for educating me about it.
German here. I changed to alcohol free beer, because I love the taste, but didn't want to drink so much alcohol. Given, alcohol free beer does taste very different to alcoholic beer, but it has alot of similarities, which I find refreshing. It has become more and more normalized to drink non-alcoholic beer here, yet a good 15+ years ago it was not as common as nowadays. Alot of people try to live healthier and that includes cutting down on alcohol.
About the guns, in the northern parts, at least were I grew up, you have a yearly festivity (Schützenfest) to crown the shooting king (Schützenkönig/paar).
That happend in every little village.
There are specific clubs for it and it is viewed as a tradition and sport.
Also, I now life in the south/south/east, BaWü and some people dont know about Schützenfest.
Wait really? That doesn't seem to be a thing in my area. I guess you're from Niedersachsen?
by the in acknowlegment of foreign keyboards and filling out formulars - you can Ä Ü Ö can also written AE OE UE - - so München can -if needed- also written Muenchen ...
I peel a banana from the stem. I feel it is easier to break the peel in that way without getting your fingertips dirty, since starting from the bottom needs more work for the sections to separate.
I used to be a stem kind of guy, but once I realized the bottom was so much easier, I now peel from the bottom and use the stem as a handle.
9:45 three years here and you're more German than I could ever be
Love when my “Easter eggs” are caught 😂
Socks in sandals! Now he must complain more about this and that and he's a perfect german! :D
09:44, wow, white socks in the sandals, YOU ARE GERMANIZED !!! 😁
Fun video enjoyed it but although I am a Schweizer from the French part of Switzerland I am somehow surprised that you didn’t mention that the “Ü” can be replaced while writing by “UE” and it is the same with the “ä/ae, ö/oe” 😉
So no worries if you can’t find the “umlaut” on your keyboard ! 🙃
don't forget you can also ride ä,ö,ü simply ae, oe, ue that's also corect, ß can be traslatet with ss thats kind of wrong but most people will understand it.
How I peel a banana depends upon what I’m going to do with it. If I already have a knife in my hand because I plan on slicing it I will peel from the top because it effectively removes the little seedy bit at the bottom; I can make a small cut at the top to make peeling easy. If I’m going to peel a banana to eat it whole I will peel it from the end because it’s much easier and it doesn’t squish the banana.
only a word to the gardens ... in germany (and also in switzerland) .. people who don't have their own garden often have an allotment garden, it's a small rented garden - area to use .. many large cities offer this in their outskirts to enable people to have a garden
im drinking alcohol free beer usually in relaxed social situation in the summer, like on the local bagger-see as a refreshing Drink. And its Alcohol Free because, well you can still drive after drinking it!
3:13 Since a few months (years maybe?) there is even an official big ß (namely ẞ), which would be more appropriate in your list of capitalized letters.
Non-alcoholic beer has always been my go to drink, when I was the driver of our group, and I got so used to it, that I order it instead of lemonade or soda nowadays, when I do not want to drink alcohol.
Try alcohol free Weißbier (or Hefeweizen as we would say in Bavaria) mixed with Almdudler. It is one of the most refreshing sunmer drinks one can have. Even better with "Kristallweizen"
I like your videos, big thumps up!
wine has also been produced in Rheinhessen ,which is actually the biggest wine producing area in Germany!!
I think the only thing as a European that shocked me about America, was being warned not to go for a walk in the woods, as I may be shot as game. If game shooting happens in Europe, it is in private estates, or there are many warning signs, they are organised. Some deer shooting is late in the evening, or very early morning, but I have never heard of anyone ever being shot.
Maybe also a cyclone warning, saying what to do, we rarely have cyclones in the parts of Europe, where I have lived.
Also medical costs, I broke my ankle in Arizona, I had to have two pins put in my ankle. It cost around five times the European cost, but I had to combine two insurances to pay for it, and all the time I had threatening letters from America. That just doesn't happen in Europe. Practically everyone has medical insurance.
Bananas? Neither stem nor stern. The stem is sometimes hard to get started, and it bruises the tip of the fruit. I usually pull at the middle of a seam and unzip from there. Why would anyone start at the bottom?
Indeed, well-assumed. I often drink (meanwhile) the alcohol-free version of beer. I enjoy drinking beer, but I do not enjoy being drunk so much. So that combines it both well and makes me often (not always) choose the alcohol-free version :)
7:43 nah, I don't drink alcohol free beer, but I also don't like normal beer or any other alcoholic beverage xD
Alcohol-free-Beer: The thing is, it is tasty, nutritious and low in (regular) sugar, so it is highly isotonic and helps you recover quickly after sports. 2ndly, there are a bunch of alcohol free radler, e.g. with grapefruit, cactus-fruit or maracuja, that taste like a lemonade-beer mixture and can also be obtained alcohol-free, so with alcohol -> a slight mood lifter (2,5%Alc) -> without alcohol simply a highly refreshing drink.
Breweries are even selling their own homemade/breweriemade natural lemonades, for which as far as I know Paulaner's Spezi is the most famous one, bout the breweries are very creative in their products and they do a fantastic job at that!
I think the difference about owning a gun is in America pretty much everybody could get it easier und in Germany it requires some stuff to be able to get it.
If you don't have Umlaute on your keyboard, you can also spell "ue" instead of "ü", "ae" for "ä", "oe" for "ö". Or you can google a virtual keyboard and type the text there, then copy/paste... Or you just copy/paste the letter and use it when you need it. I have a German keyboard and I don't have some French characters like "c cédille" for instance.
I've lived in and around Trier for about a year in the late 1980s. We used to buy the wine from the small Winzer in the villages directly.
I peel bananas from the stem, but I heard that chimps do it the other way round.
Oho, ein Wahl- Pfälzer. Und dann auch noch Bad Dürkheim, sehr mondän 🧐
What you call the bottom of the banana is actually the top when the banana is still on the tree. And yep, that's where I start prepping it, not at the stem.
The point of non-alcoholic beer is that it is basically a softdrink, but much much more healthy than eg. sodas..
Regarding wine: Yield restrictions per area are not a Germany specific thing. Those apply at least basically everywhere in the old world. They depend on the particular appellation the wine is released under. For example in Italy, requirements for a Barolo DOCG (maximum yield of 8 tons per hectar or 7.2 in case of single wineyard barolo) will be different when compared to a Langhe nebbiolo (10 tons). In general, rules for wine are much stricter in the old world than in the new world (US, south africa, australia). Both has its advantages. Strict rules in the old world assure quality and typicity for a certain regions (there are plenty of rules for each appelation including the regulation of the permitted grapes and quite a few restrictions on wine making techniques). This has advantages for consumers which know rather easily what they will get based on the appelation on the label. However, the system can often be a bit stubborn and reluctant to change, which can be a problem with changing winemaking techniques and climate. New world rules are way more flexible - which allows faster adaptations to changes and more freedom for winemakers but makes consumer life a bit more difficult.
The thing about the umlaut-dots is absolutely hilarious.
I have no Idea how Americans got that Idea but I also know that the Umlauts are quite popular in Heavy Metal and there are quite a few Metal Bands who use them for their Band Names because they look so metal but pronouncing them as if the Letters had no dots.
This led to a funny scene when the Band Mötley Crüe (pronounced "Motley Crew") came to Germany the first time and Fans where chanting their band name with the German pronunciation of the umlauts. They were definitely somewhat bewildered ;-)
09:45 Sandals (Ok, Birkenstocks) and white socks... you're one of us, Donnie, whether you like it or not. 😁
Isotonische Hopfenkaltschale? For me, it is the go-to refreshment after a hike, sports, any thirst-inducing activity. It serves very well to quench the thirst without the sugar or sweetener penalties. Alcohol-free beer came a long way and the art has matured in the last 5-7 years. It used to be barely drinkable, but nowadays it is actually rather enjoyable, especially Hefeweizen.
In addition, you can drink it at any time of the day without getting tipsy. I usually don't get along with alcohol when the sun is over the yardarm.
You can use ae, ue and oe, for ä, ü, ö. Normally for in capital written words, but that differentiates between the Umlauts and the normal vocals.
I loved that you included the wine info! My favorite wine is Riesling & I'm really excited to have some in one month when I visit :)
You definitely should check out the tour that I did! That region is ALL about Riesling and we got to taste some awesome bottles of it! 😃
As far as I know, the best Rieslings come from Germany...
Lol peel it from the stem at the top
Wine is even mentioned in verse two the German national anthem - but no beer.
alcohol-free beer used to be horrific, they've cracked it for many years now. I almost enjoy it more now, since I can drink without thinking about the alcohol. for wine though, alcohol-free is a no-go
1st time viewer - so - two things: #1, if you are in the Mosel area you must, make that MUST go to Briedel on the Mosel just down river from Zell and visit the winery of the Kroth family. I was stationed at Hahn AB in the early 70's and had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Herr Kroth and sampling his excellent product. I understand the next generation has taken over the family business but I have no doubt they still make the best wine in the area. Oh, as to your question about peeling bananas - humans tend to peel using the stem, but the expert banana peelers - apes in general - peel from the stub at what we think of as the end or bottom of the banana. They don't have to deal with those annoying stringy things like we humans do.
One of the first successful 0% beers was created in the Netherlands. It is called Bavaria. When the American army was stationed in Saudi Arabia just before the gulf war, the US army was not allowed to import beer (because it contained alcohol). So when the army learned about the 0% beer Bavaria, they tasted it. It was a success both for the US army and of course for the brewers of Bavaria.
7:59 at home I just have alkoholfreies Bier, not wine though. Anyway usually I am just drinking alcohol when socializing. Soft drinks often have toooo much sugar. Another point is there is Radler sauer, means diluting beer with water not Sprite which is available as well in a alcohol free version. Anyway there are Bierfestivals and Winefestivals, one can drink beer or wine there :) the naming depends on the region if it is possible to grow wine or hops or brew. As I am living now in Franconia ther is so called Wine-Franconia and Beer-Franconia. :)
I'm missing the re-opening of my city's wine festival this week while on vacation (they'll still be running when I get back). Our own region grows quite a bit of fruit and wine. Cider (Most) is also traditional here, as are some pretty good local Brennereien.
And I open my bananas from the stem. Like a normal person ;)
MeToo, banana monkey style...
Peeling banana from the bottom is much better because you dont have "Fäden".
Which video is the one where you were in Bad Dürkheim?
Do you plan on going to the Wurstmarkt this year?
Besides the guns for hunting and sports, which are highly regulated by the authorities (you have to have a membership in a sports club (Schützenverein) or have to have a hunting license for these guns) there are in general two other possible options to own a gun in Germany. You can be a collector for guns. I’m this case you obviously are not allowed to buy ammunition for it. The other option is to buy a blank gun. These are actually free to buy in Germany for every one over 18 years. For these guns you can buy (blank) ammunition as well. Just carrying these guns ist restricted to a license which you can apply for at local authority, which does a background check in this case. Otherwise you are only allowed to transport the guns from one private property to another one in an not loaded state in a locked case or something similar. So there are some ways to own guns. If someone from America would consider a blank gun a “real” gun or not would be interesting to me. According to the actual threat caused by these guns I (and the German law) consider these as guns since in many ways these are as dangerous as the normal ones (especially at a close range).
Funny to see my region on youtube
My lifehack at a Volksfest is to drink alcohol free beer, if my friends peer pressure me to drink over my limit. Nobody suspects a thing. 😉
das muss ich mir merken... sehr praktisch... ansonsten... radler alkfrei ist einfach lecker...
Ich frage mich, wie viele bei Parties und Volksfesten oder wo auch immer, Alkoholfreies trinken, dies aber den anwesenden Freunden verschweigen. Dazu müsste man iwie vorher dem Kellner flüsstern, dass er das Maß Bier mit Alkoholfreiem befüllt.
I haven't decided if I'll go this year. I'm kind of curious to see how it's bouncing back, but I have to admit, I've mostly found it to be a PITA with all the drunks on the trains.
You savage! At a Volksfest, the least drunk is the designated driver. Not to be drunk at all is cheating.
I would say: Look for real friends !
Whoever tries to peer pressure you is probably not your friend. Whoever tries to peer pressure, when there are good reasons for your decision surely isn't !
We drink also Most, Radler, Schorle, Mineralwasser, Kaffee, Tee and lots of Limonade of all kinds.